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So Now That Ann Coulter Is Supporting Hillary Clinton …

Man, the Anyone But McCain hysteria is bizarre. And it’s amazing, as Jonah Goldberg notes, to see people who once said we had to back Rudy Giuliani — because national security is all that matters — turning against arguably the strongest national-security candidate due to old party hatreds.

And then there’s Ann Coulter, blasting McCain because he’s not pro-torture — Ann likes that Hillary is (as usual) more equivocal on the issue. Geez, Ann, maybe if you spent 5 years in a Vietnamese POW camp you might understand.

Wow, as someone who’s identified as a conservative my entire adult life, I’ve never been more disgusted by some of the folks in my camp.

Well, if the Hillary campaign is willing to accept Ann Coulter, they can have her. All the more reason to vote for McCain in the general election …

Hey, Chris, waterboarding may be uncomfortable for a few minutes, but it isn’t “torture.” It does no physical harm, and we do it to our own special ops forces for training. If we can’t use that to stop a terrorist attack, we deserve to die.

Rob A.

Good points. A Pat Robertson could endorse Giuliani based on national security, yet less conservative peers can’t tolerate McCain despite his greater national security credentials. It’s strangely personal this year. I still expect this intra-party bickering by the GOP to be a distant memory come Labor Day. Nothing unites bickerers like “The Other,” aka Billary or Obama.

Hey Russ, Take it up with Ann Coulter. She’s the one who used the word “torture.” As for whether waterboarding is torture or not, I’ll defer on this one to John McCain, who, I suspect, knows a lot more about the issue than either of us. Here’s what the man who spent 5.5 years in a Vietnamese POW camp has to say:

“… if you gave people who have suffered abuse as prisoners a choice between a beating and a mock execution, many, including me, would choose a beating. The effects of most beatings heal. The memory of an execution will haunt someone for a very long time and damage his or her psyche in ways that may never heal. In my view, to make someone believe that you are killing him by drowning is no different than holding a pistol to his head and firing a blank. I believe that it is torture, very exquisite torture.”

It is not the same thing when we do it to our own troops in training — they don’t think they’re being killed.